System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");

I'm not super keen on how to start a new blog so I figured I would steal from the development world and say Hello, world! 

I'm currently working at Microsoft supporting the Defender for Endpoint product as a EEE (Embedded Escalation Engineer.) I work directly with the product group and site reliability engineers to identify and work on bugs and support the engineers to enable them to help our customers. I'm new to this role but have an extensive background in IT where I started in a support role, then I did a bit of web development for a few years. After that, I worked as a system administrator before moving to my dream of working at Microsoft. I worked in windows (supporting devices and deployment) for several years before recently moving into security.

In my free time, I love playing PC games and am a (not so) scratch golfer. I'm always trying to improve on that front and have a goal to finally break 90 at some point this year. I'll probably talk about that a bit on this blog.

I have no specific or explicit plans for this blog, currently, aside from getting some of my thoughts/learnings out to the world as I work through (re)learning writing c# as I've gotten into just reading it in my day to day and mainly just deepening my knowledge. I will probably talk a bit about golf, a bit about what I'm currently reading, but (hopefully) mainly technology. 

Feel free to hit me up with any thoughts/questions here or on social media (jeffbroseh on instagram or just my name anywhere else- FB or Linkedin.)

I'll leave you today with this quote I read this morning in 12 Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson:

"Here's something to consider: If you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn't recommend to your sister, or your father, or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself? You might say: out of loyalty. Well, loyalty is not identical to stupidity. Loyalty must be negotiated, fairly and honestly. Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse. It's a good thing, not a selfish thing, to choose people who are good for you. It's appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.

If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not." - Jordan Peterson 

--Jeff